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“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”
Albert Camus
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Albert Camus
Age: 46 †
Born: 1913
Born: November 7
Died: 1960
Died: January 4
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And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe.
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If God did not exist, we should have to invent him. If God did exist, we should have to abolish Him.
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The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.
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Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.
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Truth, like light is dazzling. By contrast, untruth is a beautiful sunset that enhances everything.
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Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.
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Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
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